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Speaker 1: Crush City Territory host Chandler Rome and Astro's reporter for

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Speaker 1: the Athletic joining us right now. Chandler, good to see you.

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Speaker 1: And the Astros are fresh off there fan Fest, so

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Speaker 1: we want to get some insight from that, but I

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Speaker 1: want to make sure that anyone tuning in that's not

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Speaker 1: an Astros fan stays locked in. It appears as if

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Speaker 1: there's still a chance that the Astros have a trade

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Speaker 1: chip or two that could be very valuable for another team.

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Speaker 1: So Chandler, I want to start there. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: ESSOC parades. How do you think this plays out? And

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Speaker 1: what would you do with the infield logjam that they're

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Speaker 1: dealing with.

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Speaker 2: Well, Scott, I've been saying for the last week or

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Speaker 2: so that I'd be surprised if they break camp from

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Speaker 2: West Palm Beach with this glut of infielders on the roster.

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Speaker 2: It just seems untenable to a point where you don't

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Speaker 2: have everyday playing time for both ESOC Paradis and Christian

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Speaker 2: Walker Joe spot Are reaffirmed at FanFest that Josel Twoveyle

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Speaker 2: spend most of his season at second base. You're on Alvarez,

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Speaker 2: Will spend a majority of his season at DH. Now,

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Speaker 2: both of those guys can play some left field, and

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Speaker 2: they will play some left field, but the majority of

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Speaker 2: their time are going to come at those two positions.

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Speaker 2: Those are really the only other two positions Esach Paradis

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Speaker 2: can play now. Yeah, sure, Carlos Korea could use a

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Speaker 2: day off at third base every now and then, Paradis

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Speaker 2: can play there. If Jeremy Pania needs a day off

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Speaker 2: at shortstop, maybe they stick Paradus. There should be noted

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Speaker 2: that Panya was on track to play one hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty two games last year before he broke his ribs,

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Speaker 2: So I don't envision the left side of the infield

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Speaker 2: coming off the field much. So you're looking at two

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Speaker 2: guys that are going to make about thirty million dollars

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Speaker 2: between the two of them, and you're looking at a

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Speaker 2: time share at first base, and I wonder, how how

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Speaker 2: is that a prudent use of resources for a club

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Speaker 2: that has already been pretty mindful of its luxury tax

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Speaker 2: positioning This winner, so obviously Estoc Paradis will bring more

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Speaker 2: value back than Christian Walker would on the trade market.

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Speaker 2: Christian Walker also has a limited no trade clause that

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Speaker 2: allows him to void trades to six teams. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what those teams are. As far as what I

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Speaker 2: would do, I would, you know, I would look and

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Speaker 2: see what makes the twenty twenty six Astros best, because

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, this is a team

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Speaker 2: that is in win now mode. This is not a

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Speaker 2: team that is planning for the future. This is not

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Speaker 2: a team that's trying to Stockpilot's farm system and retool.

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Speaker 2: This is a team that is trying to win now.

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Speaker 2: Aana Brown is in the last year of his contract

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Speaker 2: as a general manager, Joe spot is in the last

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Speaker 2: year of his contract as a manager. They are trying

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Speaker 2: to win a championship in twenty twenty six. I would

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Speaker 2: do whatever it takes to ensure that the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: six Astros are the best that they can be.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So then either of those two Christian Walker or

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Speaker 3: Escac parades, what do they bring back? What is the need?

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Speaker 3: Because I mentioned it earlier that possibly maybe a Jared

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Speaker 3: Duran if the Red Sox don't figure out third base

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Speaker 3: or second base before opening day.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was interesting to hear Dana Brown talk at FanFest.

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Speaker 2: He reiterated that he is trying to acquire a left

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Speaker 2: handed bat. Only the Angels took fewer plate appearances by

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Speaker 2: a left handed hitter last year than the Astros, and

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Speaker 2: Victor Karattini took half of those for the Astros. He's

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Speaker 2: now with the Twins, so obviously having Jordan Alvarez back

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Speaker 2: for a full season will help. They want to get

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Speaker 2: some run out of Zach Cole, their left handed hitting

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Speaker 2: rookie outfielder. That'll help, but this is still an unbalanced lineup.

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Speaker 2: So I think Dana, if he had his druthers, he

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Speaker 2: would go to find a left handed bat. What do

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Speaker 2: the Boston Red Sox have a lot of They have

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Speaker 2: a lot of left handed hitting outfielders that are kind

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Speaker 2: of expendable. So connecting the dots, it does make some

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Speaker 2: sense to link the Red Sox and the Astros for

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Speaker 2: a Paradus sort of deal. The Red Sox can use

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Speaker 2: some help at third base. Estoc Paradus would rake in

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Speaker 2: that ballpark given his poll tendencies. He also rakes at

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Speaker 2: diik In Park. So what I have been able to

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Speaker 2: ascertain is that the Astros like will You're a bray

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Speaker 2: you probably more than Jaron Duran that there They are

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Speaker 2: much more intrigued by him for good reason. He used

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Speaker 2: to be in the Astros farm system. He was part

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Speaker 2: of the trade in twenty twenty two that went to

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Speaker 2: the Red Sox in exchange for Christian Vasquez, so they

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Speaker 2: know him well. He's making less money. Jared Durant is

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Speaker 2: gonna make about seven million dollars this year. Will you

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Speaker 2: or a brad You's still making the league minimum. He's

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Speaker 2: a two time Gold Glover in right field. They value

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Speaker 2: that defense. I tell you, I think they are much

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Speaker 2: more intrigued by will you er a bray you than

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Speaker 2: Duran in any conversations that they're having with the Red Sox.

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Speaker 3: Obviously this was in an Astro's publication or you didn't

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Speaker 3: say this, But when you look up the projected lineup

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Speaker 3: on the Internet of against right hand, right handed pitchers,

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Speaker 3: they have Cam Smith sitting. Is there an environment where

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty six Houston Astros aren't good or are

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Speaker 3: good without Cam Smith getting every day at bats? My

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Speaker 3: contention was he should be somebody righty's or lefties that

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Speaker 3: should get six hundred at bats this season.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Cratzy Dana Brown has said on numerous occasions that that

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Speaker 2: Cam Smith is not guaranteed a roster spot going to

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Speaker 2: spring training. He's gonna have to win one. You know,

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Speaker 2: an argument could be made that he should have probably

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Speaker 2: been in the minor leagues for the last two months

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Speaker 2: of last year. He was not an everyday player. By

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Speaker 2: the end of last year. The struggles really started to

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Speaker 2: mount on him. But the Ashers had so many injuries

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Speaker 2: send them to the minor leagues by that point. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think if Cam goes to West Palm

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Speaker 2: think we're having this conversation. I think he sails on

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Speaker 2: to the team. I think he's pretty comfortably entrenched in

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Speaker 2: right field and we're not having this discussion. But he's

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Speaker 2: got to prove himself. He's got to prove himself in

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Speaker 2: spring training. That's something that he talked about at FanFest.

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Speaker 2: To hear twenty three year old have this sort of perspective,

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Speaker 2: he said. You know, we asked him how it hit

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Speaker 2: him when he heard that Dana Brown said that his

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Speaker 2: spot's not guaranteed, and he said that's business. It's nothing personal.

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Speaker 2: It's I got to go, I gotta go play, I

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Speaker 2: gotta go compete, And I think the other thing cratzy

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Speaker 2: that could enter this calculus. They do still have Hayesu

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Speaker 2: Haesu Sanchez. He did not have a good tenure with

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Speaker 2: He is, however, a left handed hitter and he is

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Speaker 2: his most natural position is right field. So if they

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Speaker 2: don't trade him, and if he goes to camp and

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Speaker 2: he maybe shows some flashes of what they thought he

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Speaker 2: in spring training, Dana Brown's already told you they need

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Speaker 2: a left in a bat, they need more balance. Maybe

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Speaker 2: that's from within the team.

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Speaker 4: Damn, that's a lot of pressure to put on a

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Speaker 4: twenty three year old kid who was traded obviously for

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Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker and and was supposed to be the big

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Speaker 4: piece in that trade.

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Speaker 3: Why would they do that to him?

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Speaker 4: Why why not be Dana Brown and say hey, we're

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Speaker 4: not sure, Like, why would you want to throw all

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Speaker 4: this pressure on Cam Smith? You gotta go out and

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Speaker 4: have a great spring training, man, because if you don't, guess, well,

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Speaker 4: you're going back.

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Speaker 3: I think Triple A is in Round Rock. They're going

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Speaker 3: back to round Rock, right.

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Speaker 4: Like, why not just say hey, we'll just see how

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Speaker 4: it goes and maybe it'll all work out like most

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Speaker 2: Sugarland A j. Don't don't disrespect Rock.

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Speaker 4: Are they still the sugar Land Skeeters.

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Speaker 2: No, they're the Space Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Oh jeez, come on.

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Speaker 2: Some people call them the Space Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Some people call me the Gangster of Love.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Steve Miller Ki, You know

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Speaker 2: I agree with what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: AJ.

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Speaker 2: I get the gist. But like, they've already put so

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Speaker 2: much pressure on this kid. I mean, they debuted him

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Speaker 2: at the big league level last year, having played thirty

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Speaker 2: two games of professional baseball. Like he has shown just

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Speaker 2: the way that he handled the way he blew up

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Speaker 2: in the season when he was a really good hitter,

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Speaker 2: when he was a productive member of this team. You

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Speaker 2: never saw him get too high. You never saw him

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Speaker 2: get to well. I think that's the one thing that

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Speaker 2: they feel comfortable about with Cam Smith is the makeup.

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Speaker 2: It's what's between the ears. He is wise beyond his age.

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Speaker 2: He's wise beyond his years. He's got an outlook on

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Speaker 2: things that most prospects his age do not have. So

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Speaker 2: I really don't think they're concerned about maybe the pressure

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Speaker 2: Smith feels a ton of pressure. But you know, it's

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Speaker 2: a valid point, and it certainly begs the question, you know,

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Speaker 2: why they took the route that they did last year

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Speaker 2: putting him on the roster to start the season, because

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Speaker 2: you know, it was funny. I was listening to Hein

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Speaker 2: Bloom give an answer about JJ Weatherholt the other the

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Speaker 2: Cardinals opening day roster, and heim Bloom just outright said,

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Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not going to care what he does

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Speaker 2: in spring training. I'm not going to care about stats.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to care what he does in greape

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Speaker 2: Fruit League play. Dana kind of took the opposite approach

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Speaker 2: with cam Smith. Cam Smith tore up the grape Fruit

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Speaker 2: League last year, just absolutely. His stats were incredible, and

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Speaker 2: he played his way onto the roster in part because

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Speaker 2: of what he did in grape Fruit League play. So

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Speaker 2: was that the right course of action? I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: but you can't argue with the first few months that

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Speaker 2: was a valuable, you know, one hundred plus ops plus guy,

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Speaker 4: You know, Jim Crane plays golf with this older fella

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Speaker 2: That's something that he did want to do, but just

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Speaker 2: the WBC without insurance on his contract. There you go.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it a little bit yesterday and now

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Speaker 1: Clayton doesn't care because he's retired. So they can hang

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Speaker 1: out the team, maybe get an appearance or two in

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Speaker 1: their huge loss though in all seriousness for the Venezuelan

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Speaker 1: team and then for Team Puerto Rico. Chandler Good catching

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Speaker 1: up with you as always, man, Crush City territory for everyone,

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Speaker 1: multiple episodes per week, even in the off season. There

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Speaker 1: you go. It's Chandler, it's Josh Reddick, it's Tyler Stafford.

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Speaker 1: It's the best in the base covering the Astros on

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Speaker 1: podcast platforms and digital show on YouTube part of the network.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Chandler, Talk to you soon, man.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: We're going to bring it right here to the BENMGM Futures.

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Speaker 1: Current win total for the Astros Classic eighty five and

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Speaker 1: a half, just like the Padres yesterday. Kratz, wasn't it

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Speaker 1: eighty five and a half for San Diego? M Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is you first, and do you feel better or

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Speaker 3: I feel worse about this one. I think there's just

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Speaker 3: a lot of I mean saying that Christian Javier has

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Speaker 3: he my what does the industry think? Is he going

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Speaker 3: to be that great? Is that one? You know? A

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Speaker 3: slider from people from scouts I've talked to that saw

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Speaker 3: him a lot in Japan. The slider's legit is he

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Speaker 3: gonna be a slighter A slider, slider, slider starter. I

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Speaker 3: just feel like there's too much question too many question

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Speaker 3: marks in that rotation for me to supremely say yes,

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Speaker 3: eighty six or more wins is what they're gonna get.

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Speaker 3: I just I think they're good. I don't think we

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Speaker 3: they'll be in it. They'll be in it. Let's put

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Speaker 3: it this way. They'll be in it. They show they

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Speaker 3: can make moves at the break. So that's why I'm

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Speaker 3: fearful of going under. It just feels right on the mark.

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Speaker 3: And I love my Padres pick yesterday. I do not

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Speaker 3: love this pick, but I'm gonna take the over. Okay,

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Speaker 3: I'm taking under. I'm going under just because what a

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Speaker 4: Just give us a million different what is so if

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Speaker 4: this goes good and this goes good, and what if

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Speaker 4: this and this and we don't know who's playing here

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Speaker 4: and Altove has to have a better ear and cam

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Speaker 4: Smith needs to make the team, and Alvarez needs to

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Speaker 4: stay healthy and too many as for me, I'm going

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Speaker 4: under it out the way they're.

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Speaker 1: Constructed, Rangers just got a little better, and Kenzie Gore.

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Speaker 4: Mariners are there, Rangers are better.

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Speaker 3: I think the A's will be better, and one if

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Speaker 3: the astros don't hit them in that one month, you

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Speaker 3: know where they seem to struggle every year.

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

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Speaker 3: It's close, too close, too close to be confident about it.

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Speaker 1: For me, yeah, I don't know. I'll go slightly under. Yeah,

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